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Monday, January 06, 2014

Liz Cheney Quits Wyoming Senate Race

Perhaps realizing that she was going to go down in a humiliating defeat, Liz Chaney - who I consider to be one nasty bitch - has abruptly pulled out of the Wyoming GOP senatorial primary race. Chaney, who seems to be the female version of her evil father, cited undefined family health issues as a motivation. Time will tell if this is truly the case or whether she finally figured out that she was viewed as a carpetbagger and was not wanted by Wyoming Republicans. Here are excerpts from a New York Times story:

Liz Cheney announced early Monday morning
that she is withdrawing from the Wyoming Republican Senate primary,
bringing an abrupt end to her unsteady challenge to the incumbent,
Michael B. Enzi.

“Serious health issues have recently arisen in our family, and under the
circumstances, I have decided to discontinue my campaign,” Ms. Cheney
said in a statement. “My children and their futures were the motivation
for our campaign and their health and well-being will always be my
overriding priority.”

Since Ms. Cheney, 47, the former vice president’s elder daughter,
declared her candidacy in July against Mr. Enzi — a well-liked,
three-term Senate veteran —she not only never found traction but also
wound up causing deep rifts among longtime friends and even within her
own family.

Her task was always going to be difficult. Unlike some of the other
sitting Republican senators who have been challenged in primaries in
recent years, Mr. Enzi has a solidly conservative voting record and did
not present the sort of vulnerabilities Ms. Cheney could exploit. But
Ms. Cheney never was able to focus much on her opponent, spending much
of her five-month candidacy fending off distractions to her campaign.

Having relocated from suburban Washington to the Jackson Hole area in
2012, she faced relentless questions about her residency and why she
would move to the state her father once represented in Congress and
almost immediately begin running for office against an incumbent.
Longtime friends of the Cheney family in Wyoming, including former
Senator Alan K. Simpson, fretted publicly about such a divisive primary.
His open expressions of concern prompted a private rebuke from Liz
Cheney’s mother, Lynne, who told him to “shut up,” according to Mr.
Simpson.

The perception of Liz Cheney as a carpetbagger was compounded when it
was revealed this summer in the Wyoming news media that she had sought a
fishing license — a rite of passage in the state — by claiming on her
application to be a 10-year resident.

Further, in an interview with The New York Times, Mary Cheney revealed
that she had not spoken to her sister in months and that they would not
be spending the holidays together. That prompted Dick and Lynne Cheney
to issue a statement, which seemed to take Liz’s side in the dispute,
affirming that their elder daughter was in fact opposed to same-sex
marriage.

Liz Cheney, thanks to some help from her father, had raised $1 million
for her campaign in the first months of her candidacy, allowing her to
air a pair of introductory television ads that emphasized her family’s
deep roots in Wyoming. A “super PAC” supporting Ms. Cheney was also set
up and began to raise money.

Ms. Cheney’s sudden withdrawal, first reported Sunday by CNN, was indeed
dramatic — as much of the short-lived campaign had been. But not for
reasons she or her parents would have liked. A campaign meant to carry
on the Cheney banner of pugnacious conservatism, especially on national
security, offered a vivid reminder about the limitations of transferring
political power.

Good riddance and, if the country is lucky, she will fade into the political wilderness.

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